Web3 Banking Symposium: Final Words from Ilya Volkov
Web3 Banking Symposium 2025 · 27 Mar 2025 · 4:30
Ilya Volkov, CEO of YouHodler and a Crypto Valley Association board member, delivers closing remarks at the Web3 Banking Symposium in Lugano. He revisits the symposium's throughlines, stablecoins as a bridge for financial inclusion, high inflation pressures in emerging markets, and the shift from traditional finance toward Web3 banking alternatives, framing crypto adoption as a practical response to unstable local currencies rather than a speculative trend.
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From Web3 Banking Symposium 2025, hosted by Crypto Valley Association.
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so with that thank you very much for your attention from my side and I'm handing over to Ilia board member fellow board member of the crypto valy Association yeah oh it's just choose one yeah yeah it's nice uh in the beginning there were no slides now no no mic thank you Bennett no it's a joke so just a few closing words uh so this slide actually uh we used last year in Geneva so very briefly this is the Innovation Continuum every innovation of human beings are going through those Cycles from impossible
through impractical through possible to expected and required so last year we said that uh web three banking uh is there you see the red arrow there so uh because we we spoke a lot that it's already like expected but by banking customers so the question to you all after all our discussions today where are we now what do you think left right how far left how far right any guesses okay I think we're here we at the border uh especially after all those um Keynotes and pan outs from traditional Banks so customers are asking for this kind of services right uh and we are not
limited Li mited by like just Investments we're also speaking about payment Trails stor of value uh there big thank you to guys from T and smart pay because it's another illustration of another site of web3 banking it's still the same like um Big Industry so we are moving forward to required and we are actually at the border and I believe next time when we'll have the Third Edition of R3 banking Symposium we will be at this required stage for sure so maybe it will be even not web three banking Symposium maybe it will be web four or web five we'll see so uh few more points uh so first of all join crypto Val Association if you are not a
member yet because you can see what kind of value you can get out of uh the cation I think today you got some illustration of the value and this is just like uh one small piece because we have much more activities there so we can simply scan uh cure code and join uh uh Association and uh as benedek just said uh come and join crypto value conference the flagship event of crypto value Association so our event today was focused on banking web three banking uh our crypto value conference will be focused on all aspects and all areas of of crypto blockchain and uh web three so and as I know from Nikki we have 15%
discount for the tickets if you SC C code now and this is one week one week yes yeah yeah so now I'd like to invite to the stage uh our team crypto valy team and the conference team so let's start with Paulo Paulo please join me on stage so Paulo is a legend believe me yeah really so he's so professional and I fell in love with Lugano really so Nikki please Nikki the soul and the main power behind the conference thank you Nikki uh so uh sasia join us here so uh so guys all together Olga
benis guys Joan come here so oh is here so uh unfortunately Amy had to leave early yeah but guys look such a small team can make really big things right so let's say big thank you to the team I hope you enjoyed the conference see you in June at rods and again join the Crypt value Association and yeah so we have a lot of things to do together [Applause]